I thought that when I got started, but I really enjoy the building and briefly enjoy the results. Then I’m happy for the owner to take it away while I cross my fingers that it all keeps working.

It’s equal parts problem solving, fine motor skills, and perseverance that keep me working on old cars. That’s why I’m not at a dealership or quick turnaround repair place.

It’s also why I’m poor

They can keep Toledo now that they’ve ruined it, but it’s clearly a chunk out of Michigan if you look at the maps.

Fucking Ohio. Except Cedar Point maybe, haven’t be there in 15 years though, it might suck now too.

We were getting on a flight to leave Boston that afternoon. It was a little weird in the airport, but the full situation hadn’t set in yet.

Ironically the flight home from LA a week later was more stressful, as there had been the manhunt and nighttime capture of them at that point.

My brother was house sitting for us just a couple miles from MIT and had to be locked down, but it wasn’t the direction they went after the security guard incident. I think they ended up in Watertown if memory serves.

I’ve been thinking of setting up a node at my local ski area, both for others to use, but also to make custom timing equipment that can send start and finish messages to the timing computer and keep us from having to haul wires up icy race courses all winter.

I’ve never actually set one up or used one yet though, so it’s probably a few years off.

It wasn’t as long when I fist saw it, but I don’t know if it got longer than this as I moved away years ago.

Some people just want to watch the nerds squirm.

This guy used to live near me:

Read that as pisstake, been watching too much British comedy lately I think.

I posted a couple things there early on but I’m generally terrible at documenting my work do there’s a decent back log of things I should share.

Thanks for getting that going way back, it was a nice place while it lasted.

Haven’t seen an open Dairy Queen locally in almost 10 years.

I don’t know about you, but I quit doing that soul crushing work as soon as I could something I really loved.

If you were tall, it was more like an abusive relationship.

It’d smash you in the head, ear or shoulder before hugging you. And if you unhooked the shoulder belt it would yell at you the whole time.

Unless the democracy has systemic flaws that allow it to be captured by minority rule, and that minority voting block disenfranchises enough of the opposition to take all power from the majority.

This wasn’t a democracy in anything more than name before the election.

We were just in Vermont and Burlington had a lot of no-mow zones and lots of butterfly gardens in the areas we biked.

We saw a lot of monarchs earlier (seemed more than previous years) in the summer too, but it got super dry and we haven’t seen as many lately. And also our observations are purely anecdotal and unscientific.

There were “shadow bands” that looked like wavy ripples starting around then too, and for a few seconds afterward too.

But OP’s point about non-totally is pretty accurate. It’s a little chilly, a bit like overcast, and you can’t look at it without eye protection until totality.

When we were at the 2017 eclipse it was warmer and we watch the bugs come out and birds roost/land on the nearby lake.

Yup moved to moose country later on and are super tall. I skidded to a stop in front of one on a dark night and it was facing away and just looked like a tall person standing in the road.

It looked back at us, then climbed straight up a quite steep embankment into the woods.

The dangers in hitting them is that you knock the legs out from under them and they land on your roof and crush you.

In in the UP, first time hunters often don’t know the difference between caribou and deer.

The supply shops find out when the hunters come back asking for help because the buck they bagged is too heavy to move. (They’re 500 lbs or more instead of the 100-200 lbs of a white tail)

Must be in therapy for self esteem problems.

That’s NYC’s Mayor you’re thinking of.

NYs Governor was a Democratic state rep and lieutenant governor for Cuomo (which hasn’t aged well, but is nothing like that dipshit mayor Adams).

If the filament is humid enough, sure.